Hiroshima: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Japan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenoptera sp.
Lacépède 1804
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Hokkaido |
| Coordinates: | 43.0° North, 141.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.3° North, 141.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Shimonopporo |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 75997 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-11-08 10:33:10 | Last modified: | 2007-11-08 12:33:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-11-08 10:33:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12148. | M. Oishi and Y. Hasegawa. 1995. A list of fossil cetaceans in Japan. The Island Arc 3:493-505 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |